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Don’t get hosed by “Someday”

By dlambert ⋅ July 4, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

For the last couple days, I’ve been helping another project team track down a memory leak in their app. Memory leaks always seem to show up at the most inopportune moments, of course, and this one was no exception. This memory leak, however, was self-inflicted.  The source of the memory leak appears to be rooted [...]

A feature greater than the sum of its bugs

By dlambert ⋅ March 5, 2010 ⋅ View Comments

Douglas Adams, muse to software developers everywhere, had this to say about bugs: “Just as a slow series of clicks when speeded up will lose the definition of each individual click and gradually take on the quality of a sustained and rising tone, so a series of individual impressions here took on the quality of [...]

The construction analogy

By dlambert ⋅ October 10, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

I did it again – just like so many others before me. Last night, Rob Conery dropped a rant about an industry heavyweight who, Rob felt, was doing us all a giant disservice by suggesting that perhaps less could be more, process-wise.  So, of course, I chimed in, and I used the tired, old construction [...]

Software maintenance – are you feeling locked-in?

By dlambert ⋅ March 24, 2009 ⋅ View Comments

In the early days of shrink-wrapped PC software, I used to buy a software title and not expect to pay anything more for that software until I decided to upgrade it. I might upgrade when the publisher released a new title, or I might skip a release — it was up to me to decide. [...]

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